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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
fury \fu"ry\, n. l. fur.
   a thief. obs.
   1913 webster

         have an eye to your plate, for there be furies. --j.
                                                  fleteher.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
fury \fu"ry\, n.; pl. furies. l. furia, fr. furere to rage:
   cf. f. furie. cf. furor.
   1. violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or
      enthusiasm.
      1913 webster

            her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired.
                                                  --sir p.
                                                  sidney.
      1913 webster

   2. violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied
      to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity;
      violence. "fury of the wind." --shak.
      1913 webster

            i do oppose my patience to his fury.  --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. pl. greek myth. the avenging deities, tisiphone, alecto,
      and megaera; the erinyes or eumenides.
      1913 webster

            the furies, they said, are attendants on justice,
            and if the sun in heaven should transgress his path
            would punish him.                     --emerson.
      1913 webster

   4. one of the parcae, or fates, esp. atropos. r.
      1913 webster

            comes the blind fury with the abhorred shears,
            and slits the thin-spun life.         --milton.
      1913 webster

   5. a stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a
      virago; a termagant.

   syn: anger; indignation; resentment; wrath; ire; rage;
        vehemence; violence; fierceness; turbulence; madness;
        frenzy. see anger.
        1913 webster
see also:
furies furor anger 
[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
fury
     n 1: a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman
          scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" syn: rage,
          madness
     2: state of violent mental agitation syn: craze, delirium,
         frenzy, hysteria
     3: the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's
        violence" syn: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, vehemence,
         violence, wildness
     4: classical mythology the hideous snake-haired monsters
        usually three in number who pursued unpunished criminals
        syn: eumenides, erinyes
see also:
rage madness craze delirium frenzy hysteria 
ferocity fierceness furiousness vehemence violence 
wildness eumenides erinyes 
[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
196 moby thesaurus words for "fury":
   alecto, jezebel, mafioso, megaera, nemesis, tartar, tisiphone,
   young turk, abandon, acerbity, acrimony, agitation, amok, anger,
   ardency, ardor, asperity, attack, battle-ax, bear, beast, beldam,
   berserk, berserker, bitch, bitch-kitty, bluster, bomber, brawl,
   broil, brouhaha, brute, burning rage, cacophony, cat, chaos,
   choler, common scold, commotion, convulsion, crank, craze,
   crosspatch, delirium, demon, devil, disturbance, dragon,
   ebullition, ecstasy, embroilment, excitement, fanaticism, feist,
   ferment, ferocity, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fever, fiend,
   fierceness, fire, fire and fury, fire-eater, firebrand, fishwife,
   fit, flap, fomentation, foofaraw, frenzy, fume, furious rage,
   furor, furore, fuss, goon, gorilla, grimalkin, grizzly bear,
   grouch, gunsel, gusto, hag, hardnose, heart, heartiness, heat,
   hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhag, hellhound, hellion, holy terror,
   hood, hoodlum, hothead, hotspur, hubbub, hysteria, impassionedness,
   impetuosity, incendiary, indignation, infatuation, intoxication,
   ire, killer, liveliness, mad, mad dog, madcap, madness, mania,
   monster, mugger, murderous insanity, orgasm, orgy,
   overambitiousness, overanxiety, overanxiousness, overeagerness,
   overenthusiasm, overzealousness, pandemonium, paroxysm, passion,
   passionateness, psychokinesia, racket, rage, rancor, rapist,
   rapture, ravishment, relish, revolutionary, row, ruckus, rumpus,
   savage, savagery, savor, scold, seizure, she-devil, she-wolf,
   shrew, siren, sorehead, soul, spasm, spirit, spitfire, storminess,
   tearing passion, tempestuousness, termagant, terror, terrorist,
   the erinyes, the eumenides, the furies, tiger, tigress, tough,
   tough guy, towering rage, transport, tumult, tumultuousness,
   turbulence, turmoil, ugly customer, uproar, upset, vehemence,
   verve, violence, violent, virago, vixen, warmth, warmth of feeling,
   wild beast, wildcat, wildness, witch, wolf, wrath, zeal, zealotism,
   zealotry, zealousness




[5] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
fury
   as attributed to god, is a figurative expression for dispensing
   afflictive judgments lev. 26:28; job 20:23; isa. 63:3; jer.
   4:4; ezek. 5:13; dan. 9:16; zech. 8:2.
   


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